How well can we derive Global Ocean Indicators from Argo data?

Ocean Science

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 783-791

  Von Schuckmann, K ^a,b   Le Traon, P Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ARGO; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; FRESHWATER; GLOBAL OCEAN; MONITORING SYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SALINITY; SAMPLING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 82155171396     PISSN: 18120784     EISSN: 18120792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/os-7-783-2011     Document Type: Article

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